Wpb Tax-theft Trial Delayed Until Fall

May 15, 1985|By Jon Peck, Staff writer

The tax-theft trial of West Palm Beach petroleum executive Kent Zimmerman has been postponed until September after a judge refused to throw the case out because it hadn`t been brought to trial quickly enough.

Attorneys for Zimmerman, a Boca Raton resident, and prosecutors agreed to the delay Tuesday, just as Circuit Judge Marvin Mounts prepared to begin the trial.

Zimmerman, 44, was arrested in October and charged with grand theft and withholding state gasoline taxes. His arrest was the first resulting from Operation Tigertail, a six-month investigation into the statewide theft of millions of dollars of gas taxes by petroleum wholesalers.